01-14-2012, 07:31 PM
Excuse me Thirdwoe: You state that - "God sent His holy word/message unto the Hebrew/Aramaic speakers." I would like to ask where exactly in ALL of scripture ANYWHERE does it say that??? It doesn't, and since when were GREEKS in Ephesus and Corinth Aramaic speakers??? You're guys reasoning is faulty. Not only was Greek the dominant language throughout biblical lands at that time, but Greek was most definitely the dominant language. Who are Pauls epistles addressed to? HUH,to the Galatians, Ephesians, Thessalonians , Colossians, Philippians, and to Timothy, who was living in Greece and his father was a Greek! Luke wrote his Chronicle to Theophilus, correct? Well that is a GREEK NAME, that is not an Aramaic name, do you get it? ACTS: 22:1 Jesus said to Paul/Saul I will send you far from here to the GENTILES, and who did Paul write most of his epistles to, look in your Bible. Those people were not Aramaic speakers mate. In fact, any Aramaic speaking Jews were such a minority that it was Jews from Jerusalem that were having to chase Paul down in other lands to stir up persecution, why - 1 THESS 2:16 Paul states - "Forbidding us from speaking to the GENTILES that they might be saved. Paul was in places like Athens and Galatia etc in GREECE, those are the gentiles that the JEWS were trying to stop him from speaking to! Not Armenians! <!-- s:dontgetit: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/dontgetit.gif" alt=":dontgetit:" title="Dont Get It" /><!-- s:dontgetit: -->
Theres only ONE main language the New Testament was ORIGINALLY written in mate - GREEK. Then in got translated into Aramaic, Latin, Arabic, and so on. Why do you think Paul had to explain so many things in his epistle to the Hebrews, because they were Hebrews living in foreign lands outside Israel, mainly Greece, who spoke Greek, Paul would not have written to them in Hebrew, because too many of them would have had Greek as their primary language including their Jewish teenage children who would be conversant in Greek primarily, but also that Hebrew letter would have been for the benefit of all the Gentile Greek believers as well, so write the thing in GREEK. Like a lot of Jews in Israel TODAY, ninety percent of them don't even read the Bible, they are atheists, as such Paul was reaching out to Hebrew sojourners who would most likely have not been intimately acquainted with Hebrew spiritual heritage and details, hence all his detailed explanations in the letter of Hebrews to put them in remembrance.
The word of God in the New Testament was only written in one language mate, except Matthew which was originally dome in Aramaic.
Do you see how so many things in the AENT English translation are basically identical to the King James English translation.
You haven't answered why the Jews were reading from the GREEK Septuagint in their own Synagogues mate. If you're going to argue that the Aramaic was written first based on your dubious reasoning's, by your same reasoning's i could argue that it was originally written in Egyptian Arabic.
Our English translations from the Greek are second hand. Your English translations from the Aramaic are third hand. Which would you prefer. And even if it was Paul himself who wrote the Aramaic versions soon after, the Aramaic is so ambiguous because many words have up to 5 distinct meanings and makes it hard to achieve a coherent precise accurate English translation, but with the Greek language it is more conducive to achieving a one-to-one translation. Thus why so many verses translated from the Aramaic are just plain "WRONG."
There's no point for all the Aramaic primacy "theorists" to sit on their high-horse and look down on us, we are the ones with the original scriptures matey, not you lot. A lot of Aramaic primacy advocates stick there nose up at us lot, because pride has blinded them to the TRUTH that the Greek as evidenced by all my PROOF is the original writings of Paul. End of Aramaic primacy! <!-- s
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Theres only ONE main language the New Testament was ORIGINALLY written in mate - GREEK. Then in got translated into Aramaic, Latin, Arabic, and so on. Why do you think Paul had to explain so many things in his epistle to the Hebrews, because they were Hebrews living in foreign lands outside Israel, mainly Greece, who spoke Greek, Paul would not have written to them in Hebrew, because too many of them would have had Greek as their primary language including their Jewish teenage children who would be conversant in Greek primarily, but also that Hebrew letter would have been for the benefit of all the Gentile Greek believers as well, so write the thing in GREEK. Like a lot of Jews in Israel TODAY, ninety percent of them don't even read the Bible, they are atheists, as such Paul was reaching out to Hebrew sojourners who would most likely have not been intimately acquainted with Hebrew spiritual heritage and details, hence all his detailed explanations in the letter of Hebrews to put them in remembrance.
The word of God in the New Testament was only written in one language mate, except Matthew which was originally dome in Aramaic.
Do you see how so many things in the AENT English translation are basically identical to the King James English translation.
You haven't answered why the Jews were reading from the GREEK Septuagint in their own Synagogues mate. If you're going to argue that the Aramaic was written first based on your dubious reasoning's, by your same reasoning's i could argue that it was originally written in Egyptian Arabic.
Our English translations from the Greek are second hand. Your English translations from the Aramaic are third hand. Which would you prefer. And even if it was Paul himself who wrote the Aramaic versions soon after, the Aramaic is so ambiguous because many words have up to 5 distinct meanings and makes it hard to achieve a coherent precise accurate English translation, but with the Greek language it is more conducive to achieving a one-to-one translation. Thus why so many verses translated from the Aramaic are just plain "WRONG."
There's no point for all the Aramaic primacy "theorists" to sit on their high-horse and look down on us, we are the ones with the original scriptures matey, not you lot. A lot of Aramaic primacy advocates stick there nose up at us lot, because pride has blinded them to the TRUTH that the Greek as evidenced by all my PROOF is the original writings of Paul. End of Aramaic primacy! <!-- s
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